The passport is a great example here. As far as we know, it's a 15th century concept, although some of the basics behind it are probably much older. Nowadays, an attestation -such as the verification that you live in a certain geographical location by a third party- could (relatively) easily be done through key-signatures, and the Web-of-Trust. Combine this with P2P technology such as Bitcoin's networking, its API, pub-key crypto, and I think you have a good mix to get ready to solve some scaling issues that normally come along with the WoT. Notice how I haven't mentioned blockchain once.

Sure, 13SZFUDR. What I meant is that I prefer to work on practical solutions without getting stuck in de philosophical discussion of what identity is. From a pragmatic PoV, that means I believe the public-key namespace can suffice for most of our needs, where it comes to (id)entities. I have to say I'm totall biased on this topic though, and always love to listen to other folks who are pondering on this topic. I sometimes get the feeling there aren't too many of us out there.

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